Masculinity and Film Performance
Title | Masculinity and Film Performance PDF eBook |
Author | D. Peberdy |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-07-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230308708 |
A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s. Peberdy examines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen.
Male Trouble
Title | Male Trouble PDF eBook |
Author | F. Walsh |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2015-12-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230281753 |
A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at film, television, drama, performance art, visual art and street theatre.
Masculinity
Title | Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lehman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135273472 |
Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema.
Millennial Masculinity
Title | Millennial Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Shary |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2012-12-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0814338445 |
Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Masked Men
Title | Masked Men PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Cohan |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1997-12-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253115874 |
The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily come together in a normative manhood common to American men. Instead these films demonstrate the widely held perception of a crises of masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the fifties represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood's star system positioned the male actor as a professional performer and as a body intended to solicit the erotic interest of male and female viewers alike. Drawing on publicity, poster art, fan magazines, and the popular press as a means of following the links between fifties stars, their films, and the social tensions of the period, Cohan juxtaposes Hollywood's narratives of masculinity against the personae of leading men like Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, William Holden, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Rock Hudson. Masked Men focuses on the gender and sexual masquerades that organized their performances of masculinity on and off screen.
Superheroes and Masculinity
Title | Superheroes and Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Sean Parson |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2019-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498591507 |
Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the industry, and the fan base at large. However, Superheroes and Masculinity also argues that possibilities of resistance and change are embedded within these problematic portrayals. To this end, several chapters explore alternative portrayals of queerness within superhero representations and read the hegemonic masculinity of various characters against the grain to produce queer possibilities. Ultimately, this collection argues that the quest to unmask how gender operates within superheroes is a crucial one.
Masculinities in American Western Films
Title | Masculinities in American Western Films PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Hamilton |
Publisher | Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Masculinity in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781906165604 |
The «Western» embodies many of the stereotypes of masculinity: rugged, independent men in cowboy hats roam the barren landscapes of the American West. Where did these cowboys come from? This book explores the relationship between the Western, film and historical representation and the ways in which masculine gender performance is itself historical.